There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé /

There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Parker, Morgan, author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Imprint:	Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2017. ©2017
Description:	85 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African American women -- Poetry. American poetry -- 21st century. African American women American poetry Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11006100

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ISBN:	9781941040539 1941040535
Summary:	"There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism, examining and confronting modern media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate, folding in references from jazz standards, visual art, personal family history, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies, stories, and histories of the past, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present, and actively probing toward a new self, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow, of vulnerability and posturing, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence"--Publisher.

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Summary:	The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God,and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing alavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in thetherapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersectionsof vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust,of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist,tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altarto the complexities of black American womanhood inan age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time ofwars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate andmourn. They are a chorus chanting: You're gonna giveus the love we need.
Physical Description:	85 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781941040539 1941040535